Fugitive state corrections officer caught in Fort Worth

Updated 9:26 pm, Thursday, May 1, 2014

Bexar County Sheriff's Office deputies are searching for Sidney Reed Denbina, 38, a detention officer with the Texas Department of Corrections who allegedly shot a man Wednesday night multiple times.

Bexar County Sheriff's Office deputies are searching for Sidney Reed Denbina, 38, a detention officer with the Texas Department of Corrections who allegedly shot a man Wednesday night multiple times.

Fugitive state corrections officer caught in Fort Worth

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SAN ANTONIO — A state corrections officer accused of shooting a man multiple times Wednesday night was caught in Fort Worth on Thursday after about 16 hours as a fugitive, according to the Bexar County Sheriff's Office.

Sidney Reed Denbina, 38, slipped out of his house in the 10300 block of Shady Meadows in West Bexar County sometime after the 10:30 p.m. shooting, authorities said. Deputies and SWAT officers surrounded the house and tried to contact Denbina, eventually entering at about 2 a.m. to find no one there.

Deputies then began to search for Denbina and determined he had taken an Amtrak train from San Antonio to Fort Worth at about 5 a.m., said BCSO spokeswoman Rosanne Hughes. The Lone Star Fugitive Task Force and U.S. Marshals became involved, and Denbina was arrested without incident at about 2:30 p.m. as he stepped from the train to the platform at the Fort Worth station, Hughes said.

He was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and booked into the Tarrant County Jail.

The man who sustained bullet wounds during the alleged argument with Denbina has not yet been identified. He was taken to University Hospital and was coherent when he left the scene, although his condition was unknown, authorities said.